Whoopi Goldberg demands apology from British royal family for colonial past: ‘Somebody is listening’
FOX NewsJUN 2022
Indigenous Leaders Demand Apology, Reparations From King Charles
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The Spin
Left narrative
British leaders must apologize and pay reparations for the country’s brutal history. The Atlantic slave trade saw more than a million Africans forced into labor beginning around the year 1500, and the UK didn't abolish the practice until 1833. This is a matter of how the monarchy should compensate millions of Indigenous peoples, not whether it should.
Right narrative
The idea of any country paying reparations is absurd. If commonwealth countries must pay money to Caribbean islands, then Norway and Sweden should pay Britons for the actions of their Viking ancestors. Instead of acting like Britain today is the Britain of 300 years ago, it’s time to move on as every other generation has. Not framing within a historical context is bankrupt woke ideology.